Benjamin reece



(No Model.)

' B. REEGE.

` WEAR PLATE FR. RAILWAY TIES; No. 488,662. Patented D610. Z7, 1892 @ec e.

the foot ilange of the rail, said rib adapted to.

truss the plate atthat point, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. A wear plate for railway ties provided with one or more serrated longitudinal-(langes, the diz'erent sections of said fiange or flanges having reversely beveled edges: substantially as and for the purposes specified. Y

4. A wear plate for railway ties having one or more longitudinal flanges composed of entering points connected by bridges of less width than the flange at the entering points: iugstantially as and for the purposes speci- 5. A wear plate for railway ties having one or more obliquely arranged serrated flanges: ulstantially as and for the purposes speci# U. A wear plate for railway ties having on one face an inclined rail seat, and on the other face a rib or ribs formed with an underneatli trussed portion beneath the margin of the foot flange of the rail; substantially as and for the purposes described.'

7. A Wear plate for railway ties havingfon one side a'rail seat,and on the opposite face one or more serrated flanges obliquely disposed to the longitudinal axis lof the plate, substantially as and for the purposes described. f j

8. A wear plate forprailwa'y' tiesgliaving on one faee'an inclined rail seat, and on the 0pposite face one or 'more serrated ianges arranged obliqnely to the axis of the plate: sube stantially as and for the purposes specified. 35

In testimony whereof I alii-x my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

BENJAMIN REECE.

Witnesses: l

W. RITTER, Jr., M. P. CALLAN. 

